This time .RAW collaborated with two artists –
Harriet Mummery and
Lucia Paganini – who invited three illustrators - Bee Pham, Indy Quartel, and Taryn Domingue - to explore the idea of a ‘digital holobiont’ in a 3D scanning workshop held at the Arts University Bournemouth.
In biology, a
holobiont is not a single organism, but rather a composite body, a collection of different species of organisms, including the host organism and various microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live within and on the host organism. These microorganisms are not just passive inhabitants but are actively involved. In this project, the illustrators were invited to
portray a ‘digital holobiont’ – a conglomerate of organisms and objects coexisting both in physical space and online.